13
Jan.
2023

12:00h
24.009

Gustavo Deco

Agustín Ibáñez (BrainLat, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, Chile, and Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
 

Abstract

From its early philosophical origins to cybernetics, to the computer metaphor, to the cognitive revolution, to neuroscience, and to embodied/situated approaches, the mind has been traditionally conceived as a set of differentiated, segregated, and compartmentalized cognitive elements. The mainstream has made progress by domesticating cognition, using designs that exposed passive participants to fixed and artificial stimuli, involving one or two cognitive processes and modalities, alongside strict control over tasks and participants’ behavior. Related theoretical neurocognitive frameworks based on independent processes (i.e., memory, emotion, decision-making, etc.) have been used to assess psychiatric and neurological diseases. Even current embodiment/enactive/dynamical/multilevel frameworks suffer from similar limitations. Consequently, cognitive science and neuroscience lack theoretical modes to grasp synergetic cognition and the blending of simultaneous processes in naturalistic settings. Understanding every-day, naturalistic cognition across brain health and disease entails major challenges. How can forthcoming mainstream approaches be extended to cognition in the wild? I will introduce a systematic fourfold turn (pragmatic, methodological, disease-related, and theoretical) for future scientific development in brain health and disease. In particular, I will focus on novel synergistic approaches and dynamical modeling and theorization to further assess cognition in the wild.